With Postgres that's because SQL has been a standard for decades now. And with idiomatic React the changes were largely not because of what you claim: not antic

With Postgres that's because SQL has been a standard for decades now. And with idiomatic React the changes were largely not because of what you claim: not anticipating needs well enough. The changes in what is idiomatic were largely around discovering better ways of doing things, along with JavaScript itself changing. You can still write a React component using idioms from five years ago and it's still easy to read the code. React is very focused, and very simple. The main motivation for moving to the newer idioms is that you can make the code even shorter and more readable. It seems to me that they anticipated the need to keep up with the JavaScript language evolving quite well.